Robert J. Sawyer




Robert J. Sawyer

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born
April 29, 1960

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place of birth
Ottawa, Canada

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Science Fiction & Fantasy


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Robert J. Sawyer is one of Canada's best known and most successful science fiction writers. He is the only Canadian (and one of only 7 writers in the world) to have won all three of the top international awards for science fiction: the 1995 Nebula Award for The Terminal Experiment, the 2003 Hugo Award for Hominids, and the 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Mindscan.
Robert Sawyer grew up in Toronto, the son of two university professors. He credits two of his favourite shows from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Search and Star Trek, with teaching him some of the fundamentals of the science-fiction craft. Sawyer was obsessed with outer space from a young age, and he vividly remembers watching the televised Apollo missions. He clai...more




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Audible.com's unabridged reading of my 1996 novel Starplex is now available. The narrator is Mark Boyett, and the audiobook also includes an exclusive introduction read by me.

The Audible.com catalog page for Starplex</i> is pretty bare-bones, so I'll mention a few things they fail to: Starplex</i> was the only novel of its year to be nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards,... ...more
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avg rating: 3.69 | 4,153 ratings | 583 reviews | 34 distinct works | 40 fans
Hominids Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax, Book 1)
by Robert J. Sawyer
avg rating 3.76 — 563 ratings — published 2002
4 editions
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Flashforward Flashforward
by Robert J. Sawyer
avg rating 3.60 — 540 ratings — published 1999
11 editions
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Calculating God Calculating God
by Robert J. Sawyer
avg rating 3.73 — 473 ratings — published 2000
8 editions
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Humans Humans (Neanderthal Parallax, Book 2)
by Robert J. Sawyer
avg rating 3.71 — 364 ratings — published 2003
4 editions
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Hybrids Hybrids (Neanderthal Parallax, Bk 3)
by Robert J. Sawyer
avg rating 3.69 — 312 ratings — published 2003
3 editions
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Rollback Rollback
by Robert J. Sawyer
avg rating 3.57 — 288 ratings — published 2007
2 editions
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Mindscan Mindscan
by Robert J. Sawyer
avg rating 3.74 — 171 ratings — published 2005
2 editions
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Factoring Humanity Factoring Humanity
by Robert J. Sawyer
avg rating 3.71 — 164 ratings — published 1998
5 editions
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The Terminal Experiment The Terminal Experiment
by Robert J. Sawyer
avg rating 3.56 — 166 ratings — published 1995
6 editions
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WWW: Wake WWW: Wake
by Robert J. Sawyer
avg rating 3.80 — 142 ratings — published 2009
5 editions
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"Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace."
Robert J. Sawyer
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"Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim."
Robert J. Sawyer (Flashforward)
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